The din about him could not drown What the strange voices whispered down; "The common air was thick with dreams,- In still, shut bays, on windy capes, He heard the call of beckoning shapes, And, as the gay old shadows prompted him, Mr. Willis's life would furnish the biographer with a vast fund of pleasant anecdote, and afford him the opportunity of giving full-length sketches of the Loudon notabilities of thirty-five years ago, including Tom Moore, Lady Eles. sington, Campbell, Jerrold, Disraeli, Charles Lamb, Tan Hood, Barry Cornwall, Leigh Hunt, Bulwer, etc., etc. Some memorial of the kind is certainly due to the memory of one who, in his flower, was the best magazinist of bis time, however many may have since sprung up to claim the periodical laurel. JAMES PARTON'S WRITINGS.-The revised and enlarged To homely moulds of rhyme he shaped their legends edition of Parton's Lives of Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson. grim." --- BOOKS BY MAIL.-Owing to our excellent postal arrangements, particularly to the cheapness with which printed matter is transported, persons not residing near express routes are enabled to purchase books in distant cities without incurring additional expense, the postage always being paid by the publisher on receipt of the retail price of the volume. In case the local bookseller cannot fill the order, the out-of-town purchaser can at once address the office of publication, and receive by return of mail any work that he may desire. Messrs. Tick nor and Fields make a speciality of attending to mail-orders for their own publications, and have a department devoted exclusively to that purpose. 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The series of biographies comprised in these volumes is invaluable to the literary student. and Benjamin Franklin, and his "General Butler in New Orleans," have taken a permanent place in modern biograph ical literature. To this gallery of admirably drawn hi torical portraits, Mr. Parton has added, in his new volume entitled "Famous Americans," a spirited series of cabinet pictures, embracing Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Randolph Girard, Bennett, Goodyear, Beecher, Vanderbilt, Arte, and Theodosia Burr. These subjects seem especially designed for Mr. Parton's handling; and he has limped his conception of the various characters with that brilliant and incisive style which distinguishes all his writings. With out a sacrifice to accuracy, he divests the driest historical event of its tediousness, and surrounds it with the interest and action of a romance. The personages he has chosen for delineation in the present work furnish him with the richest material possible for the exercise of his unusual insight into the motives which control human action, and his very dramatic power of portrayal. Ticknor and Fields' edition of Mr. Parton's complete works is in ten crowɑ Ktavo volumes, handsomely illustrated with steel plates and maps, and bound in various styles. PECKSNIFFIAN.-The Queen, a lady's paper published in London, in commenting on American women, remarks very magnanimously: "Because they (the American wo men) differ from ourselves or our ideal, that is no reason why they should be looked upon as deserving of nothing but condemnation." This is really too kind. Mr. Peckstiff himself could n't have said anything more complacent and delicious. THE NEW ILLUSTRATIONS TO PICKWICK.-The timeEVERY SATURDAY AND LONDON SOCIETY. -In conse-honored characters in that repository of humor and funquence of arrangements made with foreign publishers, the conductors of Every Saturday are enabled to reproduce the choicest papers from many of the English periodicals almost simultaneously with their publication abroad. The best articles in each month's issue of London Society, for instance, always appear in this journal several days before the magazine can be obtained here. London Society seldom contains more than two or three papers of any interest to American readers, and these are at once placed before the public in the pages of Every Saturday. N. P. WILLIS - A biography of the late Nathaniel Parker Willis, written by an appreciative pen, would make a very interesting volume. Though Mr. Willis's last years, passed in the seclusion of Idlewild, were uneventful, the beginning of his literary career was unusually brilliant. Perhaps no American man of letters, with the exception of Washington Irving, ever received so much attention and made so permanent an impression abroad as the author of "Pencillings by the Way." The magnetism of his person, his riant wit and exquisite tact, were passports to the most exclusive social and literary circles in England. He was what no American author has since succeeded in being the lion of two London seasons. This portion of "The Pickwick Papers" have received a new interpretation at the hands of Mr. Eytinge of New York, whose illustrations to the "Diamond Edition" just published have been received with marked favor. In these ille trations Mr. Eytinge has caught admirably the spirit of the book, and has given renderings of character so spirited and fresh, as to be fairly regarded as new creations. Any artist undertaking at this day to illustrate the "Pickwick Papers " must be hampered in no small degree by the necessity which tradition imposes on him of conforming to certain recognized types of character; and the skill with which Mr. Eytinge has done this, and at the same time invested his drawings with an originality quite unques tionable, is the best evidence of his power as a delineator of character. The illustrations of Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller, of Dodson and Fogg, of Bob Sawyer and Ben Allen, of Alfred Jingle and Job Trotter, and — last but not least of the Rev. Mr. Stiggins and Mrs. Weller, afford special proof that in Mr. Eytinge we have an artist capable of appreciating and interpreting the creations of the great nov. elist. Mr. Eytinge is to illustrate all the volumes of Dickens, as they appear monthly in the "Diamond Edition," and his success with The Pickwick Papers # warrants high anticipations for the future volumes MR. W. E. MARSHALL'S portrait of Abraham Lincoln is creating no little comment throughout the country. Competent critics all admit that it will become the historic portrait of our late President. As a representation of Mr. Lincoln it differs widely from all others that have been made It is no attempt at simply a likeness, no endeavor to simply catalogue the features of the countenance, or to indicate the peculiarities of the dress of Mr. Lincoln; rather it is a portrait representing the man behind the face. With a thorough knowledge of portraiture. Mr. Marshall has subordinated all that was commonplace in the countenance of Mr. Lincoln to those higher qualities that were the foundations of his character and his success As one looks upon Mr. Marshall's portrait, he beholds all that was good and all that was great in Abraham Lincoln. While the features are given without flattery or compromise, there is at the same time faithfully indicated the informing spirit of the man within. As Mr. Whittier happily says: "It is the face of the speaker at Gettysburg, and the writer of the second Inaugural." It has been observed that as Mr. Marshall did not have opportunities to study Mr. Lincoln personally, he was debarred by an unsurmountable difficulty from representing him with truth. His portrait itself is a sufficient answer to this objection. Apropos of this, it was once said of Stuart's Washington, that that great work could not be the best portrait, because Stuart had not the opportunities for studying Washington enjoyed by Peale and others. Posterity, however, has kindly forgotten all the other portraits save Stuart's, which it holds in ever-deepening regard, because it presents not only the features, but the character of Washington. Mr. Marshall has painted his portrait of Lincoln in the spirit of an artist who, "Poring on a face, Divinely through all hindrance finds the man The engraving now offered for sale is also the work of Mr. Marshall's own hand. It translates with fidelity all the excellences of the painting; and being in pure line, it has artistic excellence hardly second to the painting itself. As Mr. Sumner says, and he is a most competent critic, "It will take its place among those rare productions not to be forgotten." LE FIGARO.If a leopard cannot change his spots, a Parisian newspaper can. Some time since Le Grand Journal hurt the feelings of the French government, and was warned or suppressed. It immediately changed its typographical coat, and appeared as the Paris Magazine. From this thin skin of disguise it slipped into that of Le Figaro. What shape it wears at present will transpire on the arrival of the next steamer. The subscribers of the original journal must be good-natured people; and what a veritable Proteus is M. de Villemessant, rédacteur en chef! MUGBY JUNCTION. -Dickens's Christmas story for 1866, "Mugby Junction," has attained a popularity equal to that of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Two hundred and fifty thousand copies have been sold in England, and nearly one hundred thousand in this country, where the demand still continues. Even these enormous figures do not cover the entire circulation, as the story was appropriated by numberless American journals from the pages of Every Saturday, in which periodical "Mugby Junction" appeared seven days previous to its publication in London. This enterprising feat was accomplished through a very simple business arrangement, and not with the aid of the Atlantic Cable, as was generally supposed. Touching one of the most exquisite episodes in the Christmas brochure, the London correspondent of a contemporary says: "It is just worth mentioning that the feelings of the young lady of the refreshment counter at Rugby Junction are much hurt at that unfavorable account of her which our great novelist has put forth this Christmas under the thin disguise of the young person at Mugby Junction.' As there is no 'Mugby Junction,' and everybody, on the contrary, knows Rugby Junction and its refreshment-room, how is it possible for the public to mistake who is meant?" FAMOUS AMERICANS. -Several of the personal sketches in Mr. Parton's latest volume have caused nearly as much commotion in the world as if they were live people, instead of studies made from dead orators, statesmen, and mer. chants. His paper on Webster, in the North American Review, has brought forth the most conflicting opinions, not as to its merit as a piece of writing, for that is gen. erally acknowledged, but with regard to the writer's estimate of the character of the great orator. This is one of those points upon which doctors disagree. THE RECORDS OF FIVE YEARS. The readers of Grace Greenwood's writings will welcome a fresh book from the pen that has furnished them so much acceptable entertainment in the past. She breaks a long silence very pleasantly with this volume, in which are reflected the lights and shadows of five memorable years. The opening portion of the collection consists of sketches of domestic life in town and country, written before the war, and replete with the good sense and piquancy which have won the author so many readers. The second portion deals with more stirring events. Grace Greenwood has written nothing finer than "A few Plain Words, addressed to Certain English Friends," and the paper entitled "A Taste of Camp Life." In the first essay she reads a severe lesson to our English cousin, and in the second gives a sparkling description of a week passed in a Virginia camp during the winter of 1864. These two chapters would lend an interest to the volume, even if it were not, as it is, excellent throughout in manner and material. IF awkward dramatizations, burlesques, charges of plagiarism, and all the bitters of a critic's vial could kill a book, Charles Reade's "Griffith Gaunt" would have been dead long ago. But Mr. Reade's books have a singular feline vitality, and decline to be killed even at the ninth time. After all the adverse criticism it has elicited, "Griffith Gaunt," instead of dying peaceably like a goodnatured novel, has circulated to the extent of two hundred and fifty-five thousand copies in England, and has reached in this country a sale of nearly fifty thousand copies, where it continues to sell with characteristic obstinacy. Ir was reserved for Mr. Felton to give to the world the most vivid account of household life in Greece ever presented. In his "Lectures on Ancient and Modern Greece" he daguerreotypes the social life of Athens, as if he had been a companion of Socrates, and a neighbor and friend of all the great men and women in that beautiful city. If he had habitually lunched with Pericles and Plato, he could not have described their daily avocations and surroundings better. His residence in and personal knowl-teresting memorabilia concerning the late Victor Cousin. edge of Modern Greece have enabled him to do full justice to the Athens of to-day also. VICTOR COUSIN. -The French journals contain many in M. Cousin was of humble origin, but rose by his distinguished talent and industry to the rank of Councillor of State, peer of France, and Minister of Public Instruction during Louis Philippe's reign. His biographies of the Duchess of Longueville, Condé's heroic sister, of Madame de Labée, of Madame d'Hautefort, &c., have thrown a flood of light on the history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while the extraordinary purity and correctness of their style have done much towards improving the literature of the present day. His rooms at the Sorbonne were the only appurtenance which remained to Victor Cousin of his official rank. The walls of his salon there were literally covered with works each of which Bibliophile would have purchased at its weight in gold. He possessed twelve editions of Plato, thirty-one of Horace, twentyseven Elzevirs, and every memoir and work published during the reign of Louis XIV. In most instances these volumes had belonged either to royal personages of his time (and bore their escutcheons), or to Richelieu, Mazarin, and other celebrities of the grand siècle. M. Cousin was at home daily between twelve and one; at this hour M. Thiers, Monseigneur Dupanloup, Prévost Paradol, Taine, and Ponsard met frequently, up to the day he quitted Paris. During the monarchy, Comte de Montalembert, Duc Pasquier, Comte Mole, and Duc and Prince de Broglie were among his constant visitors. He died faithful to his classic studies, to his disinterested respect for the Orleanist dynasty, and to the philosophy whose time he had outlived. THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN.-In the course of a review of some recent American poetry in the London Athenæum, the editor epitomizes the plot of Bayard Taylor's new poem. The spirit of the story is so exceedingly beautiful, that it is but slightly injured in the translation from verse to prose. "The Picture of St. John," says the Athenæum, "is remarkable for the happiness of its leading idea, which is developed with great delicacy and truth of perception and with finished beauty of style. The idea is no less than that of the purification of the mind, by suffering, for the ministry of Art With Mr. Taylor, Art, in any high is identified with Religion And it is true that, though spirituality of genius does not necessarily imply spirituality of life, an earnest and devout nature will be better qualified to treat sacred themes than would be a nature of less conscientiousness and purity. Other things being equal, no work can be so forcible as that which expresses a man's life. The highest value, then, of Mr. Bayard Taylor's fable, which is also interesting in itself, will be found in its fitness for exhibiting the processes by which genius is trained and consecrated." sense, "GEORGE EAGER " is the nom de plume of a writer who for the present carefully conceals his personality, but who, to judge from his writings, must be a man of more than ordinary observation, experience, culture, and capacity. He is now writing for Our Young Folks a series of articles under the general caption of "Round-the-world Jo?," which exhibit such qualities in a surprising degree, being filled with incidents of travel and life in China, as well as with bits of boy-life in America, and overflowing with fun and brightness. These articles will undoubtedly make more stir than any set of papers which have been written for boys in many years, and add to the already great favor of the Magazine. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. The second volume of the "Diamond Edition," containing Dickens's latest novel, "Our Mutual Friend," is nearly ready for circulation. Throughout the series, the illustrations will constitute a notable feature; but particular attention may be directed to those in "Our Mutual Friend." Mr. Eytinge's conception of the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, of Wegg and Venus, of "The Cherub and the Lovely Woman," of Mr. Podsnap and others of the dramatis personæ, is extremely felici tous; and the skill with which the artist has executed his designs renders them equal, if not superior, to his interpre tations of the noble members of the Pickwick Club, "Six hundred a year" and "destitution" seem to be synonymous terms, but Mrs. 's charming little narrative shows how much comfort an ingenious and economical housekeeper may extract from a very limited supply of greenbacks. "Six Hundred a Year" details the experiences of a young couple who "kept house" on that slender income which is exempt from taxation. The slight thread of story which runs through the book, as well as the DeFoe-like minuteness with which the events of every-day life are recorded, gives a delightful air of truth to the narration. If it were not an actual experience it certainly reads like one, and is full of valuable domestic suggestions well worth the attention of even those who have more than six hundred a year. THE BINDING of books is coming constantly into more consideration in this country, and now receives a large share of attention from both publishers and purchasers, so that choice editions and choice covers seem likely to be the rule everywhere. And it is by no means necessary, in procuring a desirable binding for use or for the table, to go to the expense of fine leathers and intricate hand-tooling, because the best binderies are now competent to put out work both durable and handsome. Within the past few years book muslins have greatly improved in quality and finish, and the "morocco " cloth—as it is termed from an imitation in its texture to the "graining" of nice leather, which is now quite frequently seen on first-class books-is perhaps the best illustration of them, — firm, beautiful, and enduring. The art of ornamentation as extended to books has kept at least even pace with the development of the material for their external dress, and many of the stamps now used for embossing the backs and sides of books are designed by the best artists in arabesque, among whom Mr. John Leighton, F. R. A., of London, may be mentioned as having become quite emiuent for his skill and taste in this branch of art, which has grown with him from a fancy to a specialty and a study. For many years the best things done in this way in America were copies of adaptations from foreign patterns; but the continual demand for such work has created not only better handicraft, but original head-work, and now very admirable devices are not only cut, but designed, at home. From comparatively simple combinations of lines and scrolls, the die-cutters have advanced to elaborate and fanciful tracery, to clever groupings of animals, flowers, and figures, and finally to portraiture, Mr. Berry, of Boston, having just succeeded in cuiting a likeness of Charles Dickens, which is stamped in go 1 as a "side-die" upon the cover of the illustrated "Diamond Dickens. Some idea of the dif ficulty of this undertaking will be gained when it is remem bered that the die-cutter who has so to chase his pattern as to reproduce upon his inflexible block of solid brass the character of a drawing, the mere outlines of which only can be etched upon his material, can have none of the advantages possessed by the engraver in the use of delicate lines and graduated tints, but must yield to the rough necessities of the binder's steam-press, and treat his subject as a mass of color, -the bright gold standing in vivid relief against the broad, dark background of cloth, and must therefore hold his course between the baldness of unrelieved contrast and the indistinctness of too much finesse in execution. Considered in this light, Mr. Berry's Dickens is certainly the most artistic book-die ever cut in this country. NEW BOOKS. I. SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS A YEAR. A Wife's Effort at Low Living under High Prices. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.00. 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